Leopard Seal
Hydrurga leptonyx
Table Mountain National Park is the single atlas park where the Leopard Seal is recorded, though its records concentrate primarily in Australia, Antarctica, and New Zealand. This member of the Phocidae family is represented by 639 open records across eight countries.
Records are seasonal and reach their peak in January. Observations drop to their lowest levels from March through August, and again from October to December.
- Records
- 639
- Countries
- 8
- Atlas places
- 1
Each bar is the share of its 32 month-dated grid cells with records in that month.
These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Leopard Seal as much as where it lives. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.
Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.
- Very likelyAustralia25 km zone · medium confidence · 378 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyAntarctica25 km zone · medium confidence · 150 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelyNew Zealand25 km zone · medium confidence · 57 records · updated 40 days ago
- Very likelySouth Georgia & South Sandwich Islands25 km zone · medium confidence · 39 records · updated 40 days ago
- LikelyChile25 km zone · medium confidence · 12 records · updated 40 days ago
- PossibleFrench Southern Territories25 km zone · medium confidence · 2 records · updated 40 days ago
- UncommonArgentina25 km zone · medium confidence · 1 record · updated 40 days ago
- RareSouth Africa25 km zone · low confidence · 0 records · updated 40 days ago
Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.
